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Canada Zinc Metals Receives Multi-Year Exploration Permits
Canada Zinc Metals Receives Multi-Year Exploration Permits Vancouver, British Columbia CANAD...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nCanada Zinc Metals Receives Multi-Year Exploration Permits\n\nCanada Zinc Metals Receives Multi-Year Exploration Permits\nVancouver, British Columbia CANADA, May 16, 2013 /FSC/ - Canada Zinc Metals Corp. (CZX - TSX Venture), is pleased to provide an update on permitting activities for the Akie, Pie, Mt. Alcock, Yuen and the North Kechika regional properties. \nThe Akie property is the Company's flagship exploration project and is host to the Cardiac Creek SEDEX Zn-Pb-Ag deposit with a 43-101 compliant measured and indicated resource recently updated in April of 2012. The Kechika Regional Project, represented by a series of contiguous property blocks including Pie and Mt. Alcock, extends northwest from the Akie property for approximately 140 kilometres, covering the prospective Devonian Gunsteel Formation shale. The Gunsteel shale is the known host to the Cardiac Creek deposit, the Cirque deposit (Teck/Korea Zinc), and numerous Zn-Pb-Ag mineral prospects and occurrences along its mapped extent. The southernmost boundary of the Kechika Regional project is located approximately 260 kilometers north-northwest of the town of Mackenzie, in northeastern British Columbia, Canada.  \nThe Yuen and North Kechika Properties - Permitted\nThe Company is pleased to report it has recently received multi-year exploration permits from the British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas for the Yuen property and the North Kechika regional properties. These permits will allow the Company to execute its exploration plans on these properties and evaluate targets generated from the recently completed digital compilation program.\nThe Yuen property is located between the Mt. Alcock property to the northwest and the Cirque (Teck/Korea Zinc) property to the southeast. The Yuen property, with a similar setting as the Mt. Alcock property, is sub-divided into a western and eastern panel of the prospective Earn Group rocks which is the host assemblage of the Devonian Gunsteel Formation shale. There has been limited historical drilling on the Yuen property, representing over 1,400 metres, scattered across the property testing isolated soil anomalies and known mineralised showings located on the two panels. The Yuen property has seen little exploration activity over the past 30 years with the last period of focused exploration occurring ...